Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Meeting started at 7:10 PM.
There were 3 officers and 6 members in attendance: Holly, Clarence, Joe, Lorelei, Donnie, Mike, Kevin, Roadie and Casey. There were no guests.
Pledge of allegiance.
Minutes from July meeting were read and accepted.
Clarence gave the treasurer’s report, the group voted to accept. If you want to see a treasurer’s report, come to a meeting.
Harley Raffle – nothing much new, tickets are selling fast. Texas Roadhouse has a new manager and we will hear from them about catering in August.
Toy Run – Red Knights are leading the group from Essex and handing parking at the State House. Dana cannot lead the group from Newport, Kimball will. A pallet and a half of bottled water is order, we will be selling it. Donnie and Clarence are working out how to get the trailer, cooler and ice to Blue Cross. Donnie’s bike is in the shop, the bike with the big flag; hopefully it will be ready for Saturday. Holly’s bike will be flying 2 flags, Vermont and US.
We are meeting at Maplefield’s in Morrisville at 8:00 AM on Saturday. We’ll stop by Holly and Joe’s on RT 12 to pick up the t-shirts and then head to Montpelier and Berlin.
The Veterans Place, an organization from Northfield that assists homeless vets will be handing our flyers and selling raffle tickets at the toy run.
There is a vintage trailer show in Montpelier and the fire department is doing a fill the boots donation. They are all aware of the Toy Run and are supposed to be out of the way.
There are after the Toy Run parties at Wilkins’ HD in Barre and the Moose Lodge in Williamstown. UMV donated $200 to the Military Kids charity that the Williamstown party supports. They thanked us on Facebook.
WCAX may or may not cover it.
There was an article in the Times Argus, mostly about the after party in Williamstown but it did mention the Toy Run.
St. J radio station still saying meet at the mall, Mike will contact them, Roadie will put up signs at the mall saying go to Maplefield’s.
We’re putting together a first aid kit for the trailer.
Reimbursing whoever pulls the trailer around was discussed. We will find the current IRS set mileage rate and adopt that as policy. Clarence said he will donate it back to the organization. We should have this in place.
We’re renewing our yearly MRF membership.
Camp Takumta – we will be making our usual $500 donation. The ride is September 12 for anyone who wants to attend.
We raffled off a Harley Raffle ticket among those present, Casey won – congrats.
Meeting adjourned at 8:04.
